git: 6ccdd2fc2328 - main - UPDATING: Document FreeBSD-base pkg .conf shuffle
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Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:59:26 UTC
The branch main has been updated by cperciva:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=6ccdd2fc2328dd81b9c645fba025d01052a3c1a1
commit 6ccdd2fc2328dd81b9c645fba025d01052a3c1a1
Author: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-11-16 16:56:12 +0000
Commit: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-11-16 16:59:10 +0000
UPDATING: Document FreeBSD-base pkg .conf shuffle
Reminded by: yasu
MFC after: 3 days
---
UPDATING | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index d6cbe66009f0..aaef0e5b4cd3 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -27,6 +27,16 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 16.x IS SLOW:
world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
+20251115:
+ The FreeBSD-base repository is now defined in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf,
+ disabled by default. In -CURRENT and -STABLE this points at nightly
+ builds on pkg.freebsd.org; for BETA/RC/RELEASE builds it points at
+ release engineering builds on pkgbase.freebsd.org.
+
+ Users of pkgbase will need to replace any existing definition of the
+ FreeBSD-base repository in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/ with a single
+ line "FreeBSD-base: { enabled: yes }".
+
20251110:
OpenPAM (including libpam and the PAM modules) has moved to the new
"pam" package. The pam-lib subpackage, which includes libpam, will